Diapositiva 1

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IAVE
International Association of Volunteer Efforts
WE ARE THE VOICE OF VOLUNTEERS AROUND THE WORLD
Consulting member of the Economic and Social
Council of the U.N. - II category
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IAVE COLOMBIA XX IAVE WORLD
CONFERENCE THE IAVE WE DREAM FOR - 2018
Perspective Exercise LUZ STELLA ALVAREZ
BOTERO IAVE National Representative Panama
City, April 4th, 2008
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Offering voluntarily on Earth, in the
communities and online, is a vital channel for
the the normal people to do amazing tasks and,
this way we will achieve the abundance of human
solidarity needed for our common goals to be
achieved."
Kofi Annan
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Nowadays volunteer activities make up for
according to statistics the 7th world economy
in terms of GDP. In various developed countries,
they contribute to more than 5 of the GDP in
goods and services, especially social services.
In countries like Sweden, Holland, Israel,
Canada, the United States, among others, a huge
network of organizations, based on voluteer work,
perform a very wide range of services for the
various sectors aiming at the common welfare...

Bernardo Klisberg
General Coordinator of the Inter-American
Initiative at the Inter-American Development
Bank.
Towards a new
vision of the social politics in Latin
America., May 2005.

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WORKSHOP GOAL Offering the assistants a space to
build together the tools for visualizing the
IAVE we dream for - 2018, through a Perspective
Exercise. EXPECTED RESULTS Shared dream. An
ideal space for the volunteers and IAVE members
to reflect about the Wished Future" for the
organization and what the proper strategies to
make it true are.
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We hope that the conclusions of the workshop will
become an important motivation for the decision
the Board will take especially the ones related
to GENERAL POLICIES AND ITS LEADERSHIP
IN THE WORLD.
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• METHODOLOGY
• Background that incluides
• 1.1 Introduction
•       1.2 Achievements of the volunteering since
• AIV/2001. Asking the volunteers about
  
• regulations, social networks,
  inter-sector
• relationships,  including the
  volunteering in social responsability
  programs developped by companies, young
  volunteering and  research.
• 1.3 Current Trends.  
• 2. Team work. 
• 3. Conclusions. Group Effort.            
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• Background
• 1.1 INTRODUCTION
• We are offering some definitions to unify
  concepts
• VOLUNTEERING
• Not easily clasifiable conglomerate of
  situations where the human beings can show, in
  different ways, their love for human kind, their
  altruism, their conscience, their political and
  social responsability and their goal to find
  their position in society. There isnt any ideal
  volunteering with common characteristics , but
  various situations of volunteering, each of them
  related with the context in which they happen, as
  well as the purposes and aims of their actions..

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RETHINKING OF THE CIVIL SOCIETY IT IS THE
RELATIONSHIP IT IS NOT A SPECIFIC BETWEEN
SECTORS SECTOR GOVERNMENTAL
ECONOMIC

SOLIDARY CIVIL SOCIETY would be
determined by the conexistence and cooperation
between the sectors and the group work to
promote thier capacity of mutual respect and
improvement of the quality of life. (Lester
Salamon )

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According to Lester Salamon SOCIETY
Strengthens through the alliances between the
State, private sector, and solidary sector.
This is the way to CREATE COMMON SOLUTIONS
BETWEEN THE SECTORS AND BECOME PARTNERS WITHOUT
AFFECTING THEIR AUTHONOMY.
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GLOBALIZATION It is a process that derives
from the growing communication and
interdependency between the various countries of
the world that unifies the markets, socities and
cultures through a series of social, economical
and political changes giving them a global stamp.
SOLIDARITY It is the ability to perceive
that traditional differences - race, tribe,
religion- lack the importance when compared to
the pain and humiliation caused by a member of
the same group. ( Richard Rorty )
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THE SOLIDARITY GIVES THE
VOLUNTEERING
Geared by various motivations
Different areas of action
With perspectives of development in many
directions
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• 1.2 Achievements of volunteering since AIV/2001.
• WORLD SITUATION
• IAVE COLOMBIA results
• Increase the number of member countries,
  people and institutions.
• Corporate Volunteering Council- GCVC.
• Representation of the volunteering family
  in the World Summit on Information
• Society.
• Youth International Office in Barcelona.
• Organization of the International Resource
  Institute in Taiwan.
• Institutionalization of the Youth Conference,
  prior to the World Conference.
• Recognition of the contribution of the
  volunteering to reach the MDG.
• Inclusion of the volunteering contribution in
  the National Accounts of different countries.

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• Strong strategic alliance between IAVE and UNV.
  Eleven UN resolutions related to
• volunteering.
• Alliances between the State, private sector and
  Solidary Sector.
• IAVEs Strategic Plan.
• Revision, approval, launching and publishing
  of the Declaration of the Volunteers.
• Organization of the membership.
• Regulation. Volunteering Law in different
  countries such as
• Colombia, Argentina, Uruguay, Brasil.
• Increase of Social Volunteering Networks.
• Monthly Electronic Bulletin.
• Visit of the president to Latin America.

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• NATIONAL SITUATION
• The State recognizes the volunteering as valid
  partner.
• Participation in the definition of public
  policies Law 720/ 2001 and
  regulation.
• Recognition of the Full Volunteer Life
• Workshop on welfare housing with the
• Contraloría General de la República.
• We moved on from the IVY-2001 Committee to the
  National Volunteering Network.
• Increase of the Professional Volunteering that
  offers work hours to
• specific matters.

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• Incorporating volunteering as a component in
  the Social Responsability programs of the private
  sector.
• Technical guides
  for volunteering. Good Practices.
• ICONTEC Rules for the managment model
  for the
• Volunteering. Certificables.
• Workshops for the solidary sector.
• Agreement with Dansocial.
• Participation of the youth in the creation of
  numerous volunteering organizations.

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• 1.3 Current Trends.
• Society is more interested in working for common
  welfare.
• Decrease of the Number of people interested in
  the traditional volunteering,
• loss of motivation, legitimacy crisis.
• Appearance of movements that come out from the
  streets and are promoting
• peace, the equity, tolerance, preservation of
  the environment, gender equity.
• Growth of youth movements.
• Volunteers who offer proffesional work hours
  -Time Bank.
• Volunteering as expression of the participation
  of the citizens and the right to be supportive.

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• Appearance of Corporate Volunteering in the
  context of social repsonsibility
• Online Volunteering. Ciber-volunteering.
• Research of the sector.
• World projection taking advantage of the
  world resources, sustainability, better image,
• acknowledgement.
• Mutual support.
• Soacial management. Interest in instilling
  best administrative,
• information and communication
  technologies to enrich knowledge and
• manage efficiency and impact.

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2. Workshop. IAVE WE DREAM OF - 2018 LETS
IMAGINE WHAT FUTURE MAY LOOK LIKE!!! Prospective
is the science that studies the future in order
to understand and influence it. Although it is,
paradoxically, a science without an object that
moves between the necessity to predict and the
desire to invent a better future. Future cannot
be precisely predicted, but we can imagine what
the future may look like! According to JORDY
SERRA, the NGOs focus on what we can do to make a
better future or at least, so that it does not
get worse! The focus is on action, commitment
with the future generations. Prospective
planning. The question, now, is what is the
desired future for the IAVE IN 2018_

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First step How do you picture IAVE in
2018? Write on the card the individual dream.
Second step share the individual dream.
Third step in groups come to an agreement to
turn the Individual dream into a common dream.
Fourth step define strategies to achieve the
common dream.
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• 3.IAVE IN COLOMBIA OUR DREAM
• The results of the efforts of IAVE in
  Colombia
• Unique, dynamic and self-sustainable world
  network
• For the 10th anniversary of AIV-2001 the is
  recognized as a world
• symbol of volunteering.
• Connections to numerous companies that are
  socially responsible
• Program of sharing successful experiences of
  the instritutionalized volunteering
• Many private companies are part of the World
  Council of the Corporate Volunteering
• Council- GCVC.
• Strategic alliance between UNV and IAVE.
• Governmental, economic and solidary sectors and
  the various UNO offices in the
• respective countries, get together for the
  common celebrations of DIV.
• UNO budget accounts for a share to support the
  creation of national and regional
• Volunteering Networks, through the
  agreement between IAVE and UNV.
• Ongoing global volunteering connectivity
  program.
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3. Conclusions. Collective efforts.   Share with
the whole audience the conclusions of the groups.

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